Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because they 've been split between school , between young classes , my daughter 's been in with the eight year olds . |
| 2 | When the cab came , Charles left in a surge of family effusiveness , and then , feeling like the hero of some of the terrible thriller films he 'd been in during the fifties , he told the driver to go to Steen 's home instead . |
| 3 | I mean I think you and say that you know I mean I think test matches are simply because you know over time , you know people are in to the one day cricket match , be the excitement and everything else and it 's getting increasingly more difficult for television companies to get sponsorship , commercial sponsorship for |
| 4 | Others , of course , are in between the two extremes . |
| 5 | Yeah , that 's even better , but then we 're on to the forty foots so that 's even better . |
| 6 | Erm the U V A machine , the problem we 've got on there which Ray 's explained or Peter raised this morning , there is in between the the drive belts that take the film down the former and which They 've put a new set on which is a hundred and forty pound a pi They 're in between the two drive wheels , there is a plastic adjuster . |
| 7 | They 're out on the twenty of March or something . |
| 8 | Once we 're out of the twenty six week period it would go back to its normal rate . |
| 9 | And then you 're back to the three sixty or nought again . |
| 10 | After only 20 doublings , which does n't take very long , we are up in the millions . |
| 11 | ‘ Giles said he and Ursula had been out with the two of you . |
| 12 | We are back to the three act drama with which we began . |
| 13 | Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy . |
| 14 | This would be in about the 1880's . |
| 15 | No they have to be in by the twenty sixth of June . |
| 16 | If anything does happen , it 'll be up to the three of you to deal with it . ’ |
| 17 | It should be up on the 800 server series in the third quarter . |
| 18 | I 'm up against the six footer , and a five foot ten wife |
| 19 | The early completion could mean that products using the 601 could be out within the 12 to 18 month timeframe . |
| 20 | And the chances are that by the time the market picks up again in 1991 we will be back to the 1983 figure . |
| 21 | And he cheered up on hearing he could be back before the six months doctors first predicted . |
| 22 | The primitive mammals that happened to be around in the three areas when the dinosaurs more or less simultaneously vacated the great life trades , were all rather small and insignificant , probably nocturnal , previously overshadowed and overpowered by the dinosaurs . |
| 23 | Lick and stick stamps have been around since the 1840s , but by the turn of the century it 's thought self-adhesives will be the norm . |
| 24 | Research identified that retailers were using cheap methods of display which had been around since the 1950's . |
| 25 | We used to stand it in the window to cool down so that we could get a cool drink — it was April and temperatures were up in the nineties and there was no water on the train . |
| 26 | Officially statistics suggest there are no more cars in the city than there were back in the seventies . |
| 27 | Officially statistics suggest there are no more cars in the city than there were back in the seventies . |
| 28 | If the number 1 lefthand light is on for the 580 and the modular electronics and the number 1 righthand light on for earlier machines , then as we saw last month the first stitch of the pattern will fall to the right of the N1 cam , that is on needle number 14 to the left of centre . |
| 29 | It is down on the 22.6 per cent the Liberal-SDP Alliance secured in the 1987 election . |
| 30 | The FAO 's new estimate of 15.4 million hectares a year is down from the 16.9 million hectare estimate presented at last year 's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro , but well above the 11.4 million hectare estimate of 1980 . |